St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-22
TEE SENATE.

Ifl6lf rates on lnlS distance.
The meeting then dissolved.
TIE SENATE.
Private BANKS. Public SinecureS.
Demented Writers and Disfrau-
chised Women to ne Looked After.
When the senators came together yester-
day, little after 10 a. m., the first thing
disposed Of was the question of adjourn
ment. Senator Halvorsen's motion that
when the senate adjourned it should ad-
jOurn over until Tuesday, at 1880 a. m,
being carried, settled the matter quickly.
A special committee Of five on Senator
GOOdrch's proposed womanS suffrage con-
stitutiOnal amendment was announced to
consist Of MeSSrS. Goodrich, Schetfer, John
son, T., Smith and Nelson. The report of
the commission locating the site of the
third insane asylum at Fergus Falls was
read. 1t is a very lengthy document. 1t
estimates the cost Of a building similar to
that at st. Peter, with capacity for 500
inmates at S240, 000, and it recommends
the following appropriations:
Two detached wards. ds.............. $50, 900
Other buildings and improvements. 20, 600
Land. Observation-Disclosures. 81, 44U
Building on west half OF site ......... 1,000
1Cljl. SlU1, ,4iU
Mr. Christensen. who dissented from the
commission, thinks the question of the pos
sibility Of a fourth insane asylum should
not have been taken into consideration.
The report was referred TO the committee
on insane asylums.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr.. POpe-To amend section s, chapter
142, laws of 1885, which appropriated $l2,OOG
annually to joint stock agricultural societies,
and 81, 200 to Southern Minnesota fair asso-
Citations. Agriculture.
BY Mr.. Day-To give school boards power
to fix the minimum age at which children are
to be admitted to public schools at six years.
Education.
| BY MIR. Day-!To amend section 10, chapter
Sc laws of 1878, relative to changing school
BY Mr.. Whitemau-To legalize certain
| records affecting titles of real estate. Judi
| ciary..
By Mr.. Keller-For the destruction of bur-
| dock, wild mustard and kale. Agriculture.
| By Mr.. heler-To protect public bridges
| from being broken or damaged by steam en-
| gines. Roads and Bridges.
| BY Mr.. Hoard-To appropriate s., coo for 8
bridge across the Minnesota river, between
| Chippewa and Lac Qui Parle counties. Roads
and Bridges.
BILLS RECOMMENDED.
| Some house bills Of local nature were
read and referred. Committee reports were
| then adopted IS follows:
| Education-Passagc of Il substitute for the
| bill proposing 10 increase the state superin-
| tendent's salary from $1,000 TO $500. The
| substitute proposes TO make it 50, 00U Passage
! of Il substitute for the physiological temper
ance instruction bill. The penalties embraced
i'll the substitute are not 50 severe, and its re-
| Quirements less stringent.
.IudiciorV-paSSaUeO OF Il substitute of the
threshing lien bill. The substitute requires
| the party operating the tnreShing machine to
! file a statement Of his claim within ten days
| after the grain has been threshed, so as 10
! obtain first lien on the grain. Also passage
| Of the legal personal identity of married
women bill.
| Finance-Passage of the bill to appropriate
money Tor the state public schools. Refer
ence of the bills to reimburse Sauk Rapids
| and Benton county for rebuilding buildings
destroyed by the cyclone to the committee of
| the whole.
Electons-That Senator A. H. Truax is en-
titled to q seat III the senate, the returns Civ
ing him majority of one; that be should
! have received the certificate; that to go be-
| hind the returns might developc that the vote
| was tie and the order of the contest should
! be reversed and Senator Akin become the
| contestant. On motion by Senator Bowen it
was decided to refer the report to the full
! senate, and q motion by Senator Edwards
| maze II Lnc SpCCldl OTuGt lOE TUESDAY at !! d.
! m. Senator Akin says he wants Justice done
and hopes the senate will consider carefully
the evidence. The contest is so that IA single
vote can change it. The testimony Is to be
| presented and read.
BILLS PASSED.
Three bills on the calendar were passed
without any trouble They were:
Goodrich's, securing to inmates of insane
asylums their postal rights: Bowen's, legal
! 41,r-
Gov. Rice's school funds constitutional
amendment, and Lums (house bilD, estab-
| fishing Il municipal court at Brainerd.
! Senator Nachbar's bill requiring affida-
Wits to be subscribed to by jurors before
fees are obtained was killed by vote of =
| to %.
BILLS DISCUSSED.
Six bills were taken up in committee of
the whole. Senator Clough, of Hennepin.
presiding, and much time spent i'll discus
sion. The committee recommended to pass:
Hoard's bill. approprating money for farm
ers' institutes; Marcus Johnson'S amend
ment, relating TO chattel mortgages; Keller's
| amendment to prevent private banks from
doing business under corporate names; Ed
wards amendment, relating to fishways, and
the judiciary committees substitute, relat-
ing to fees of jurors and iaiors.
BANKERS VS.. BANKERS.
Senator Meier. Oh SCeaTnS, made VlgOr-
Gus appeal for his banking amendment.
which was the bill most discussed in the
committee, Senators Daniels, Nelson. Ed
wards and others supporting it, and Senator
Compton opposing it. The point brought
out in Mr.. Keller'S argument was that it
was necessary and right to place safe
guard around the deposits of the poor. The
legally incorporated bank submits report
! to and permits its books and accounts to no
examined by the public examiner, and
therefore its financial condition is always
made public Not so with the private
bank doing business under a corporate
name In the first place, such a private
bank assumes a corporate name for the ap-
parent purpose of deceiving the public;
second. its financial condition, not being
examined by public examiner, NAV
be sound or it may be otherwise.
but as the depositor has no means of
ascertaining its true financial status. he
may place his hard-earned deposit in poor
keeping unsecured by an irresponsible con
Germ: third, such bank does not nav the